The History Of Herodotus Volume 1 of 2

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204. This army of the Persians reached Euesperides, and this was their
furthest point in Libya: and those of the Barcaians whom they had reduced
to slavery they removed again from Egypt and brought them to the king, and
king Dareios gave them a village in the land of Bactria in which to make a
settlement. To this village they gave the name of Barca, and it still
continued to be inhabited by them even down to my own time, in the land of
Bactria.

205. Pheretime however did not bring her life happily to an end any more
than they: for as soon as she had returned from Libya to Egypt after
having avenged herself on the Barcaians, she died an evil death, having
become suddenly full of worms while yet alive: for, as it seems, too
severe punishments inflicted by men prove displeasing 184
to the gods. Such and so great was the punishment inflicted by Pheretime
the wife of Battos on the men of Barca.